Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- DIVERS voyages touching the discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE WRITERS OF GEOGRAPHIE, WITH THE YEERE WHEREIN THEY WROTE
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE TRAUAYLERS, BOTH BY SEA AND BY LANDE, WHICH ALSO FOR THE MOST PART HAUE WRITTEN OF THEIR OWNE TRAUAYLES AND VOYAGES
- A VERIE LATE AND GREAT PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA IN FIFTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF NORTHERLY LATITUDE
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL AND MOST VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MASTER PHILLIP SYDNEY, ESQUIRE
- A LATINE COPIE OF THE LETTERS PATENTES OF KING HENRIE THE SEVENTH, GRAUNTED vnto Iohn Gabote and his three Sonnes
- A NOTE OF SEBASTIAN GABOTES VOYAGE OF Discouerie, taken out of an old Chronicle
- A DECLARATION OF THE INDIES AND LANDES discouered and subdued vnto the Emperour and the king of Portugale
- THE BOOKE MADE BY THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Master Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527 […]
- TO THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRAUNCE, FRAUNCES THE FIRST
- THE DISCOUERIE OF THE ILES OF FRISLAND, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo, and Icaria
- THE TRUE AND LAST DISCOUERIE OF FLORIDA
- NOTES IN WRITING BESIDES MORE PRIUIE BY Mouth that were giuen by a Gentleman, Anno 1580
- NOTES FRAMED BY A GENTLEMAN HERETOFORE to bee giuen to one that prepared for a discouerie, and went not
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE COMMODITIES GROWing in part of America
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
A DECLARATION OF THE INDIES AND LANDES discouered and subdued vnto the Emperour and the king of Portugale
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- DIVERS voyages touching the discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE WRITERS OF GEOGRAPHIE, WITH THE YEERE WHEREIN THEY WROTE
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE TRAUAYLERS, BOTH BY SEA AND BY LANDE, WHICH ALSO FOR THE MOST PART HAUE WRITTEN OF THEIR OWNE TRAUAYLES AND VOYAGES
- A VERIE LATE AND GREAT PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA IN FIFTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF NORTHERLY LATITUDE
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL AND MOST VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MASTER PHILLIP SYDNEY, ESQUIRE
- A LATINE COPIE OF THE LETTERS PATENTES OF KING HENRIE THE SEVENTH, GRAUNTED vnto Iohn Gabote and his three Sonnes
- A NOTE OF SEBASTIAN GABOTES VOYAGE OF Discouerie, taken out of an old Chronicle
- A DECLARATION OF THE INDIES AND LANDES discouered and subdued vnto the Emperour and the king of Portugale
- THE BOOKE MADE BY THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Master Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527 […]
- TO THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRAUNCE, FRAUNCES THE FIRST
- THE DISCOUERIE OF THE ILES OF FRISLAND, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo, and Icaria
- THE TRUE AND LAST DISCOUERIE OF FLORIDA
- NOTES IN WRITING BESIDES MORE PRIUIE BY Mouth that were giuen by a Gentleman, Anno 1580
- NOTES FRAMED BY A GENTLEMAN HERETOFORE to bee giuen to one that prepared for a discouerie, and went not
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE COMMODITIES GROWing in part of America
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
MOST EXCELLENT PRINCE,
Experience proueth that naturally all Princes bee desirous to extend and enlarge their dominions and kingdomes. Wherfore it is not to bee maruelled to see them euery day procure ye same, not regarding any cost, perill, and labour, that may thereby chaunce; but rather it is to bee marueiled if there be any prince content to liue quiet with his owne dominions. For surely the people would thinke he lacketh the noble courage and spirit of all other. The worlde knoweth that the desires of Princes haue beene so feruent to obtaine their purpose, that they haue aduentured and proued things to mans coniecture impossible, the which they haue made possible, and also things difficult haue made facil; and thus to obtaine their purpose, haue in maner turned vp and downe the whole worlde so many times, that the people inhabiting in the farthest regiō of the Occident, haue pursued with great desires, labours, and perils, to penetrate and enter into the farthest regions of the Orient: And in likewise those people of the said partes of the Orient haue had no lesse labour and desire to enter and penetrate into the farthest land of the Occident, and so following their purchase [purpose?] haue not seased vntill they could passe no farther by reason of the great Seas.
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- Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands AdjacentCollected and Published by Richard Hakluyt, pp. 27 - 32Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1850